Bluegrass at the Lake was, for lack of better words, a smash hit this year. The two-day festival brought in $16,700, lake superintedent Isaac Hett said Monday. Expenses to run the event were a little ...

For farm kids and ranch kids, the choices can be even more burdensome. If they grew up in a farm family, the weight of generations of tradition may loom from the shadows. Maybe grandpa farmed. Maybe ...

Unwanted surprises are common with the abandoned and the working wells that dot Marion County. The state estimates 120,000 well bores have been drilled in the state, including oil and gas and ...

There was a field with an old Allis-Chalmers combine from around 1950 that was broken down and wheat was turning black. There were no parts to repair the combine. On some farms, women and men were ...

By ERIC MEYER. Staff writer. With overdue payments from City of Marion taxpayers leading the way, 2025 property tax delinquencies in Marion ...

The last time the county updated its comprehensive plan was in 2017 — before controversial wind farms began operating and before data centers became a concern nationwide. County administrator Tina ...

Danielle Bartel never imagined a career in local government. Today, she’s responsible for helping lead the town that raised her. “When I started at the city, I realized that I had found my people,” ...

A 10-year-old girl was flown to a Wichita trauma center Friday after suffering a leg injury in a bicycle accident in Hillsboro.

Despite that grim news, Land was at Bluegrass at the Lake that weekend, as he says he has been every year since for almost a decade. “This is what I live for,” he said. Months after his diagnosis, ...

By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. A customer unhappy with how a chicken sandwich was prepared could face criminal charges after allegedly throwing it at empl ...

Ryan D. Howser, 40, Wichita, was arrested at 2:46 a.m. Thurday after Hillsboro police investigated a vehicle, described as suspiciously backed into a parking space in front of Ampride.